The Council says not all people who experience ringing in the ears are experiencing ascension syndrome. Some people bring ringing in the ears in from a past life to learn from this and it’s apparently unrelated to ascension syndrome. Some people experience ringing in the ears because there’s a problem with the ears, the temporomandibular joint, or the neck. Some people experience ringing in the ears from tension.

Marie asks if it’s common for many people to experience ascension symptoms. The Council says some are having these symptoms and it’s because the body is starting to vibrate at a higher level and the body needs to attune to these energy changes, which can create multiple symptoms. Some are able to ascend without experiencing any of these symptoms.

Marie asks if lightworkers and empaths are the most susceptible to ascension symptoms. The Council says everyone is susceptible to these symptoms. Some people desire to experience them. If you have them, how does it make you feel? Are you excited? Does it make you feel happy you’re ascending to another level? Do you find it annoying? Is it frightening because you don’t know what’s going on? Each person that calls ascension symptoms into their life does it for different reasons. Many ascend very high in this lifetime and they don’t experience any symptoms at all.

Marie closes by asking if The Council would classify her as an empath? The Council says Marie has pre-planned to come into this life to understand others, what they go through, and what they feel. Pay attention to this. Empaths feel how others feel. Empaths have problems being around lots of people at one time. Empaths tend to be introverted rather than extroverted. Because you planned to come in and talk with people and really understand and feel what they’re saying, you are an empath.

Listen to the entire 5-minute audio recording of our session with The Council (below) to hear all their guidance for Marie and the rest of us and let us know what you feel about it, or ask your own question.

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This post answers questions for The Council from a reader named, Andrea, who says she’s been remembering more of her dreams lately and they seem very real. She dreams about places she’s been, but in the dream these places are different from the real places. She also dreams about places she hasn’t been and don’t exist in her waking reality.

The Council says it seems Andrea’s spirit wants her to experience things at a faster rate and they feel most of what she’s calling dreams are really out of body experiences, which are projections into other realities while she’s asleep. Just about everyone has these astral projections when they sleep, but they don’t remember them. While your body is asleep your spirit sort of pops out and you visit friends. You go to spirit and talk over lessons you need or things you want to experience that you haven’t experienced before. You meet other souls. You plan your future. And you go to places that don’t exist in your present reality.

You’re always learning and looking for different places to help you experience whatever it is you desire. And because you want this so badly, your spirit is having you remember these experiences as if they were your dreams. Pay attention to the feeling of wherever you go in these out of body experiences. Does it feel good? Do you like being in this place even though it doesn’t match up with the way you remember? Or if you experience a brand new place, why are you there? What’s the feeling you have when you’re in this other dimension?

The Council says one of the reasons Andrea remembers these astral projections is to help her learn about feelings and to experience them from other realities as well as her current reality. In time as you keep having these astral projections you’ll learn the reason your spirit wants you to have them. This is something you wanted to learn and the fasted way to do this is by having these out of body experiences.

As Andrea hears The Council’s reply, what does she think about this? Do you like the idea of astral projecting, or is it scary? If it is scary, why? You’re spirit. Nothing can harm you. There is no end to you. You’re just hopping around different realities trying to learn how you feel in them. Look for clues. Look for familiar things that you see or hear. After you do this many times it will come to you what mysteries you’re trying to solve. And The Council says they know one of the feelings you want to learn about is fear.

You want to work through these feelings of fear. If you’re afraid of something in your current reality, are you also afraid of it in another reality? What is that fear? What does it feel like? What does it remind you of? As you go into these astral projections these are questions to ask yourself.

When you wake in the morning and remember these projections we recommend you write them down and then go through it during the day. I was in this reality. This is what it looked like. Did I see someone familiar? What did I feel like? Was I on a mission? Was I looking for something in that reality? And going through this process will help advance Andrea’s spiritual growth.

Listen to the entire 9-minute audio recording of our session with The Council (below) to hear all their guidance for Andrea and the rest of us and let us know what you feel about it, or ask your own question.

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This post answers questions for The Council from a reader named, Misti, who has a question about divine timing. She says her twin flame partner crossed over earlier this year from cancer leaving her devastated and confused. Many years earlier he was told his life plan by a guru and was supposed to live longer than he did. He was a powerful medium and we were both certain he’d recover from his illness. Why did my partner leave earlier than I expected?

The Council feels Misti’s partner learned most of what he wanted to learn before he passed. No matter who tells you how long you’re going to live, your spirit knows why it’s here, what it’s looking for, when you achieve it, and when you plan to leave. Your partner was very excited about going back into spirit and bringing the information and the feeling of what he learned with him, and then to come back in a new life.

Misti asks if her partner was needed sooner than expected on the other side and The Council replies somewhat humorously that nothing is needed on the other side. It’s all there.

Misti asks if her partner taught her the lessons she needed to learn sooner than expected and she released him sooner? The Council says Misti hasn’t learned all her lessons and she’ll be in this lifetime for quite a while yet. Be grateful for what you learned from your partner and move forward. You’ll always receive help from spirit and from your partner even though he’s passed over.

The Council advises Misti not to feel she learned too quickly and helped your partner crossover. He didn’t rush back to spirit because something’s wrong back there and he’s really needed. He crossed over joyfully with information, with feeling, with understanding that would help everyone grow, even in spirit.

Your partner learned that confusion is okay. He learned that when you’re here you don’t ever reach your full potential. There’s always more desires and more you want to learn. You go through each lesson and you take the information with you to the other side so that even in spirit everyone grows. Your partner learned about chaos, he learned about confusion, and he learned about healing. And he was excited to take this information and the feelings back to spirit.

The Council closes by saying your partner definitely didn’t need to heal the cancer her was suffering from before he crossed over.

Listen to the entire 4-minute audio recording of our session with The Council to hear all their guidance for Misti and the rest of us and let us know what you feel about it, or ask The Council your own question.

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This post answers questions for The Council from a reader who goes by the name, LookingForAdvice, who’d like to know about the marks on their face that have been increasing lately. LookingForAdvice has been to a doctor who says there’s no medicine to reduce these marks, and they ask The Council if there’s any product that might help them with this and make sure they don’t come back as often. LookingForAdvice says they’re a big believer that all body-related issues are trying to tell us something, but in this particular case they don’t understand the issue.

The Council says this particular problem is an emotional one for LookingForAdvice and it will take a lot of inner work on their part to reduce these facial marks. Your body is trying to get you to look at yourself. You’ve created these marks because on some level you’ve learned not to like yourself.

Meditate and begin to appreciate yourself and what you’ve accomplished. When you can do this, your face will become free of these marks. Identify with who you truly are as a spiritual being and discover what is going on in your life. Are there people around you that hold you back? Are there people that irritate or upset you and you’re not dealing with this? This can create symptoms that show as marks on your face. You may think you love yourself, but go deeper.

In the meantime, learn about the fifth, sixth, and seventh chakras. These chakras control the energy to your face. If you learn how to work the energy in these chakras you’ll see improvement.

And you can help yourself with the Edgar Cayce pack, which is flannel or pure cotton and castor oil. Soak the flannel or cotton in the castor oil and place it on the marks on your face. Castor oil is known to heal the cells of the body on a deep spiritual level and remind the cells they are part of God, spirit, and love. While you work on your emotions and begin to love yourself more, you can also work with castor oil and with the fifth through seventh chakras.

Always begin by looking in the present for ways to love yourself more, but also look back at your life. Was there a sibling who was appreciated more than you? Do you feel like you haven’t done enough with your life? Do you feel you aren’t pretty or handsome enough or you aren’t intelligent enough? These marks are on your face and your face is how you show yourself to the world. Look at your emotions around this to learn how to heal these marks.

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The Council says when you’re an empath (which means you’re highly intuitive and feel things that other people are feeling and thinking), you’ve brought this gift into this lifetime to learn how to use it. By meditating and grounding yourself you’ll learn how you feel on a day-to-day basis.

You’re here to learn how to use this gift and how to recognize what is you and what is someone else’s feelings. Once you begin to do this you’ll feel a lot of relief and joy. When you’re able to tell the difference between your feelings and other people’s, and you are centered in your heart, you’ll feel more comfortable with this gift.

Darla says she’s struggled with how to protect herself from absorbing other people’s feelings and still remain true to herself. She says it’s difficult for her to figure out which emotions are hers and which emotions belong to other people.

The Council advises Darla to first learn to feel what her emotions are, and this comes with meditation, or sitting quietly and just going within her heart and asking to feel who she truly is. What’s her vibration like? Stay with that feeling and forget about other people while she does this. It takes focus to learn how to use this energy. Take your thoughts into your heart and ask to feel what you are feeling.

Darla asks The Council why she chose to be empathic during this lifetime. The Council says in a different lifetime Darla had a friend who was empathic, but Darla wasn’t able to understand how her friend felt. Because of her great love for this friend, Darla asked to be an empath in this lifetime so she could feel what it felt like, understand it, and learn to work with it.

The Council advises Darla to learn what her energy feels like. Once she learns that, the rest is easy. Once she’s aware of what she’s feeling, no matter where she is or how many people are around, this will give her a boundary. She can go into her heart and feel what she’s feeling. When she feels other feelings, she’ll know they’re not her feelings. The most important thing is to learn about herself.

Listen to the entire 7-minute audio recording of our session with The Council (below) to hear all their guidance for Darla and the rest of us, and let us know what you feel about it.

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This post answers questions about spiritual enlightenment from a reader named SoulPeace. SoulPeace has been reading about Buddhist culture lately and is drawn to the subjects of spiritual growth, human reincarnation, and lesson learning.

The Council says this is a big step in itself because SoulPeace has opened to enlightenment and knowledge that will help them move forward in their current lifetime and on an easier path.

SoulPeace asks The Council if we’re able to learn our lessons without being born on the Earth path? The Council says we need an Earth body to learn what we desire to learn when we choose to be born in a physical body. We come to Earth to learn about emotions.

There are other realities besides Earth where you experience only the energy shifts within you. You learn with your thoughts: both positive and negative. You don’t need a physical body.

The main reason we come to Earth is there is so much we desire to learn where we need a physical body to learn it. In other realities we can exist only as energy or thought forms and we are also able to learn in these non-physical realities.

When you’re back home in spirit, that is another reality. And many choose while in spirit to help people who choose to live in the Earth reality, and this is another place where you learn. You’re able to learn lessons without being born into a physical body, but these lessons are different from the ones you learn when you’ve chosen to be born in a physical body.

SoulPeace asked The Council how we can achieve freedom from being born into an Earth body and achieve moksha or nirvana (freedom from death and rebirth). The Council says every time you finish an incarnation it’s always your choice whether to come back in an Earth body or remain in spirit and not come back.

The Council says in spirit we always have the desire to come back and learn something on the Earth path. There’s always a new goal; something else that wants to be experienced.

If you decide not to come back, you’d remain in spirit and you’d learn through the experience of others who do come back. You’ll tap into their thoughts and feelings and continue learning that way. And sometimes by doing this, it strikes a chord in you where you think about trying the Earth path again.

SoulPeace closes by saying they’re trying to find peace for themselves and wants to know where to begin in order to experience this. The Council says you begin by knowing you are a spirit within your physical body that you’ve created. They say to see the things you’ve created in this life that helps you experience love and joy, and to follow that feeling and do more of these things.

As you experience one joy and it leads you to another and another, you will find what you planned to experience when you were in spirit before being born into your physical body. Know that your job is to experience love and joy and compassion for others, and the rest will all fall into place.

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This post answers a question from a reader named Lavender, who asks The Council to interpret her dream about a man who she felt had negative energy. In the dream she was setting up a play date for her daughter and a little girl who lived in this man’s house, but he didn’t want Lavender and her daughter there when they arrived.

The Council suggests Lavender look into her childhood for a person or persons she felt had negative energy and didn’t like being around them? The Council feels this dream represents a memory Lavender is ready to bring into her conscious mind.

The Council says in this dream Lavender had a child she wasn’t sure she wanted in this man’s company and they ask Lavender to think back. Is there something familiar about this? There’s an emotion she’s ready to release about one or more people she didn’t feel safe around.

Lavender says in this dream the man had a large black snake covered in bees around his neck. The Council asks Lavender what blackness means to her, what does a snake mean to her, and what do bees mean? What do they feel like? Answering this question will give her clues to how this dream relates to her subconscious.

The Council says as Lavender examines this dream and the memories it brings, perhaps remembering something she hasn’t remembered before, she can remind herself she’ll always be protected going forward. See what emotions come up. If it’s fear or confusion Lavender can understand it’s from her past and she’s ready to let go of these emotions she has hidden within her.

The Council closes by suggesting that dreams will teach us if we follow them.

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This is an interesting post inspired by a question from a reader named Rob, who’s afraid inanimate objects have negative emotions. As an example Rob recently got rid of a possession he loved and he’s been distraught because he feels like he’s causing this object to suffer. He also feels bad for plates that don’t get used and food that doesn’t get bought. Rob adds he’s currently on medication for this problem.

The Council says it’s Rob’s beliefs and how he looks at things that determines how he feels about them. They say Rob has lived several lifetimes of abandonment and loneliness and in his current lifetime he projects these feelings onto objects around him.

The Council says every object has an energy and Rob taps into this energy, but with thoughts of sadness rather than the love that created these objects. There is no sadness in these objects. They don’t think and feel the way humans think and feel. As Rob sees objects that may be discarded and he feels they’re unwanted, remember it is he who feels unwanted from these other lifetimes he’s lived. The purpose of these objects is to be helpful and loving.

One of Rob’s goals in this lifetime is to remember the joy of these objects and that they are here to serve and bring love. The Council says it’s how Rob perceives these objects that matters and they suggest looking for the joy and the love in them rather than the sadness.

For now The Council feels the medication Rob is taking can be helpful, but if he has the discipline to work with what they recommend, his feelings and understanding will change, he’ll tap into the vibration of joy and love, and the medication won’t be necessary any longer.

The Council says it’s a wonderful path Rob is on where he’s so open to thoughts and feelings for objects around him and he cares about them. But the caring shouldn’t be one of sadness, it should be one of joy and wonder that the object is doing it’s job or has completed it’s job and now is free to go on to another job. Everything around Rob is working to bring love and beauty to his eyes and make him smile. As he begins to look at the world this way he’ll start to feel better.

Listen to this very interesting 14-minute session with The Council (below) to hear all their guidance for Rob and the rest of us, and let us know what you think.

This post is inspired by questions from a reader named Diana, who says she’s been trapped in unfulfilling office jobs for 20 years and would love to focus on her creativity, art, healing work, and group skills. She says she’s despaired for many years not knowing how to fulfill her potential because she has no money for trainings, she’s tired all the time, and has very little time to develop her interests.

The Council says they see this lifetime is a continuation of another lifetime where Diana was able to see other peoples auras and feel their emotions. The Council suggests Diana meditate and ask in her meditations to be able to connect with other people and to see their brightness again.

As Diana meditates she’ll get different thoughts and pictures in her head. Begin to draw people you see and the light and colors you see around them. Do this for awhile with friends and family. Diana can become very good at this and it will begin to bring in the financial help she’s looking for. Many people will want drawings of their aura and The Council feels she’ll do very well with this.

The Council advises that when you do what you enjoy, the vibration around you lifts. Focusing on how to draw other people and their auras will take Diana’s mind away from the things she feels are her problems. Her focus will be more on the spiritual of the people she meets. As Diana connects with this spiritual vibration, she’ll attract the right partners and the money she needs. She’ll find her whole life begin to change.

Listen to our entire 5-minute session to hear all The Council’s guidance for Diana and the rest of us, and let us know what you think.

This post is inspired by a question from a reader named Linda, who asks a question about her health. She’s heard that her health is connected to her emotions and attitudes and we cause our own illness. And she asks if it’s possible to heal a throat tumor and what she can do besides changing her thoughts.

The Council sees that Linda is holding in many emotions and more expression of feelings is needed. There are many things she’s experienced that she’s holding in and hasn’t spoken of.

The Council explains Linda creates what she experiences in her life from her thoughts, her beliefs, and her attitude. Visualize what you desire. If you need health, then see yourself as healthy and practice feeling healthy. Your body listens to every thought you think. If you think of sickness your body will give you sickness. If you think over and over of experiencing wellness and stay in that vibration, what you experience has to change. Changing your attitude and thought is very important and is the foundation for experiencing wellness.

The Council says if Linda sits every day in a bubble of pink loving energy, asking herself what this feels like and experiences that she is well, her body will change and become well. When you look for disease you will find disease. When you look for wellness you will find wellness because that’s how the universe we’ve created works. What you look for you will find.

The Council says if Linda needs a way in addition to changing her thoughts to experience wellness, there is a great method that Cynthia and many of her friends have also used from the great prophet, Edgar Cayce.

Get Palma Christi Castor Oil and wool flannel that together make up the Edgar Cayce pack (www.baar.com). Put it on your throat and follow the directions in the recording. This oil aligns the cells in your body to who you are as a spiritual being. It teaches the cells how to be well. The Council suggests if Linda is looking for something physical to do, she can try this also.

Listen to our entire 10-minute session with The Council (below) to hear all all their guidance for Linda and the rest of us, and let us know what you think.

This post is inspired by questions for The Council from a reader named Linda about a distant energy healing she received recently to clear her aura of negativity. Since the healing took place she’s felt down, not much joy, and seems to have lost her flow in life. She asks The Council if these feelings will pass, or is there something she can do to re-establish her joy and get unstuck from where she finds herself?

The Council begins by pointing out the ability to heal herself lies within Linda rather than within an external healer. Sometimes when you go to another person for a healing, that person will send you healing energy and your body and spirit will use this energy in the way that’s best for you. What The Council sees is that this healing stirred up a lot of Linda’s emotions and instead of getting the full clearing she wanted, these emotions have been brought up so she can learn to heal them herself.

The Council suggests meditation, prayer, working with crystals, and using her healing inner light. See the energy go into and around her body and lift out what needs to be removed.

Another exercise Linda can do is one she also used in a lifetime as an American Indian where she would stand on a hilltop on a windy day, raising her arms, and ask the Wind God to blow through her and remove whatever is negative or she doesn’t need.

The Council says the reason these emotions were stirred up is to get her to know she has the power to heal herself. And they add that the person Linda chose to do this energy healing did exactly what was necessary, with love, to push her forward in finding her true self.

Listen to the entire 6-minute session we did with The Council (below) on Linda’s questions to hear all their guidance for Linda and the rest of us. And let us know what you think.

This post is inspired by a question from Carmela, who asks The Council how she can get her recent eye spasms to stop. One of the things that makes this question interesting is Carmela’s focus on physical symptoms and The Council’s ability to tune into what’s causing them.

The Council says an eye doctor isn’t the one to help Carmela at this point, and they ask her to look at her life and see if she feels any extra stress when the spasms began about 5 months ago. Physically Carmela has created a subluxation (or misalignment) of her C2 and C3 vertebrae in her neck, but The Council says this is caused by an emotional thought of something going on in her life.

The Council asks Carmela what is it she doesn’t want to see, understand, or move forward to in her life since the spasms began? The Council recommends massage, acupuncture, and/or chiropractic adjustments to help her physically with her eye spasms. But for more permanent results Carmela should look at what’s coming up in her life on an emotional level.

When Bob asked The Council for more details about the emotional aspects of Carmela’s eye spasms, they said there’s several things going on, but the situation will resolve more quickly if Carmela is able to find the answer herself. And while the massage, acupuncture, and chiropractic will provide needed physical relief, The Council stresses again the importance working on the emotional aspect of this problem to keep it from reoccurring.

Since we chose to answer several readers’ questions during this session, we’ve included The Council’s wrap-up at the end of the session with each question we post. During this wrap-up The Council advises all of us to go in the direction of our heart and the direction of love to become more clear on what’s really going on in our life.

Listen to the entire 6-minute session (below) to hear The Council’s full guidance for Carmela and the rest of us.

This post is inspired by questions from Maria about her past lives and her spiritual path. She has been told by a psychic that she’s a healer and asks The Council if they see her doing this as a career.

The Council sees a past life as an American Indian where Maria was a medicine woman who did a lot of healing. In this lifetime she knew how to work with plants and to call in spirit to ask for help. The Council says if Maria has a desire to be a healer, it comes from this past lifetime.

The Council says if Maria wants to carry forward her healing ability into this lifetime they ask her to work with people’s emotions. When people speak to her she’ll feel what’s behind their words. They advise Maria to listen with her heart to understand what the person is trying to heal, understand, and aspire to. They also suggest reading books on herbs, other plants, and Bach flower essences.

The Council asks Maria to look into healing as a profession and if she feels it’s something she’d like to do, they say she’d be a success.

The Council also recommends learning about crystals by reading books and visiting crystal shops, lighting incense when she prays, and walking barefooted among the trees. And all the knowledge she had as a healer in this past life will slowly return to her.

Listen to our entire 5-minute session (below) with The Council to receive the benefit of all their guidance for Maria and the rest of us.

This post is inspired by a question from a reader named T. who asks The Council the purpose of a beautiful soul in her life who happens to be a co-worker and married to another woman.

T. says she’s never felt so free and content just knowing he exists and feels unconditional love for him. She’s unable to see any unhappiness in his marriage, and while she knows he feels something for her, T. has no idea what this is. She asks for signs of his feelings, but finds them confusing.

T. wonders if she shouldn’t give energy to the idea of being with him one day, or sit back and wait for the right time to be with him. She asks The Council why they have come together, if they’ve lived past lives together, and what is his purpose in her life?

The Council asks T. why she would want to give up this unconditionally loving relationship and they add this is the reason we have come to this physical reality. She has created this relationship in her life and she needs it.

The Council asks if T. must have more, or if she’s able to appreciate the relationship she’s having right now? Does she want to come between this man and his wife?

The Council feels confident T. will create whatever she wants. Perhaps she’ll create an affair with this man – whether it ends well or not will depend on how she creates it.

The Council says T. is able to create a situation where this man leaves his wife. Or is T. able to enjoy this relationship, taking what she finds there, and create her very own partner without separating this married couple? The Council says there isn’t any judgement of her whichever she chooses. What feels better to her?

The Council says T. and the co-worker have lived past lives together and he’s in her life now to help her get in touch with loving feelings that will help her create what she desires. Will T. take the love she’s created in this relationship and create a new relationship where she’s able to share these feelings with someone else, and still remain friends with this co-worker? Or does T. want to create what she desires with this man she works with?

The Council says it’s very important for T. to focus on the feelings and emotions that are uplifting for her and then choose whether she’d like to share this love with her co-worker, or create someone new in her life to share this love with.

This is a choice The Council says wants to be made (presumably in spirit). As they see it, this choice was discussed before coming into this physical reality when T. was in spirit, and it was her wish to see how she could create loving feelings wherever she goes, whether it be in an intimate relationship or with family, friends, co-workers, etc.

The Council says this situation is not about creating the right partner for T. It’s about creating loving feelings in all her relationships.

Listen to the entire 13-minute session with The Council to get the benefit of all their guidance for T.

This post is inspired by questions from an anonymous reader on the theme of past lives. She says she’s experienced some difficulties in this lifetime and asks if her last lifetime was any different. She also asks how many lifetimes she’s had, and if she’s an old soul.

The Council starts by saying we are all old souls according to time in our reality. By this we expect they mean that most or all humans have experienced many, many lifetimes.

The Council reminds this reader she’s the creator of the difficulty she’s experienced and they ask: what has she learned about this, how has she come though these experiences, is she proud of herself and does she love herself for what she’s been through. Then The Council asks if she can feel how going through these difficult experiences has brought her to where she is right now, and these experiences can help her create the future.

The Council says we pull situations from past lives into our current life to push us and help us in this lifetime. They say perhaps you liked the way you handled something in a past life and want to experience it again. Or perhaps you think you can handle a situation better and you create it again in this lifetime to see if you can have a better feeling outcome.

The Council says it’s Anonymous’s purpose in this lifetime to appreciate her experience in a family that hasn’t been loving, rise above that experience, and when the time comes she can create her own family where she can give and receive the love she didn’t receive from her birth family.

What surprised us most about the information in this session was The Council’s response to A’s question about how many past lives she’s lived. The Council has mentioned in several other sessions that from a spiritual point of view we don’t experience a past and a future. Everything is taking place in an infinitely present moment. What we think of as the past and the future is a human interpretation we think of as time.

The Council says because your spirit is so full of love and the desire to learn and experience, your soul is able to send multiple parts of itself into various time periods–past, present, and future–and experience them all simultaneously. They even say we have the ability to send multiple parts of ourselves into the same time period. And we have the ability to create new additional past as well as present lives.

This session contains ideas that may be difficult to grasp. Listen to the entire 10-minute session below to hear in The Council’s own words the power you have as a spiritual being.

Sarah’s Questions

This post answers several questions from a reader named Sarah who’s 23 years old and relatively new to thinking about her spirituality. She begins her questions by asking The Council for some general clarity on the nature of things and her path to intimate love.

Sarah explains how her deeper appreciation for self-love and love in general has caused her to question the meaning of twin flames and soul mates, and whether she can create them in her life. And she describes a very close male friend who seems meant to be something important to her, but she doesn’t feel that drawn to him as a boyfriend.

Sarah asks if this young man is her twin flame or soul mate because she wants to know if she should try and create these in her life, or sit back because he’s the one. She asks how much of her situation is pre-determined spiritually and how much she controls as a human being?

The Council’s Answers

The Council starts by commenting it’s wonderful Sarah understands the importance of loving and appreciating herself rather than projecting her love onto someone else so she can feel it.

The Council addresses the question of twin flames, sometimes referred to as twin souls. After a little background which you can hear in the recording below, The Council asks if we realize we’re all the same soul, all connected, and part of the One. And they ask if that doesn’t make us all twin souls?

The Council says many people are looking for their soul mate because they believe it will be the perfect relationship, but they don’t seem to agree. They say soul mates don’t just come along in a love relationship or partnership. They can be cousins, friends, acquaintances, and they usually push you to grow and force you to a higher level of understanding, whether it’s through positive experiences or negative ones.

In response to Sarah’s question about whether she’s able to create a twin flame or soul mates in her life, The Council says she can create either or both. The Council is firm that you as a spiritual being are in charge of your life experience.

There’s some interesting discussion about the ways your spirit pre-plans what happens in your physical reality.

With regard to Sarah’s male friend, The Council advises appreciating the connection they share, and know she doesn’t have to feel drawn to him romantically. He’s in her life for whatever experiences, fun, and challenges they go through together. But as far as a love relationship is concerned, she is able to create something else if she wants.

In response to her question about whether he is a twin flame or soul mate, The Council says because they’ve shared many lifetimes together, yes he can be a twin soul and yes he can be a soul mate. But they add that we are all those things to each other.

Listen to the entire 19-minute session below for details of The Council’s answer to Sarah’s question.

During a recent session The Council took the opportunity to speak in general about the subject of abortion because so many readers have asked about it. This post is devoted to that session. An audio recording of this session is included at the end of this post.

The Council notes that most questions on abortion center on the theme of feeling guilty and the need to feel forgiven. And they want everyone involved in making a decision about an abortion to understand that whatever their decision, whether to abort, or have the child and keep it or give it away, all the souls involved have agreed on this decision and there is nothing to feel guilty about.

They say this isn’t easy to understand when you are going through it because your experience in this lifetime is part of your personality and what you believe about it. But The Council suggests when you can begin to believe you are an eternal spirit in your physical body and the creator of all you experience, this difficulty becomes less burdensome.

The Council says whether you decide to abort a child or not, this is part of an agreement you made with the soul of this child to have this experience and your higher selves are very happy about whatever outcome you choose.

The Council hopes you will experience relief when you hear abortion isn’t a horrible thing and you haven’t killed a spirit or put an end to a life, because we are eternal. They say we come to this Earth reality for experiences that are emotional and physical, and they remind us to always look for the love in each experience. In the case of abortion, you giving love to a spirit that wanted to have this experience.

The Council briefly discusses the subject of giving birth to a child with disabilities, and how you are giving this child an opportunity to experience a life that it and you have chosen.

The Council finishes with a reminder it’s your privilege in every situation to find that you are spirit in your physical body, see others for who they are as spirit, and look for ways to show the love you are.

Thank you for taking time to read this post. Listen to the entire 14-minute session below to hear all The Council’s advice, and be sure to let us know what you think.

This post is a short question and answer from an anonymous reader who says they’ve felt for at least four years they don’t belong in their hometown and they ask The Council for guidance about moving.

The Council starts by saying they can see this person move if they can see it themselves. They encourage this person to trust their feelings and move anywhere the desire comes up within them. When you feel unhappy where you are and there’s a feeling it’s time to leave, ask yourself what you are drawn to and visit these places.

You will know where to move because an opportunity will open up for you. Perhaps it will be a job offer or a place to live. Learn to trust and follow your feelings. The Council says when you go somewhere and even though you are desperate to move, if it doesn’t feel right, follow your feeling and go with what pulls you and makes you smile when you think of it.

The Council says they see a move for you and you will create this move when your are ready as long as you let fear get out of the way. And it will be a good move as long as you follow your feelings. Your feelings will show you the way.

This 5-minute recording is testimony to the creative power of the individual when you allow the love you are as spirit into your life and follow these feelings. Listen to the session for The Council’s entire message. (The recording that follows is an excerpt from a session that answers several questions.)

This post is inspired by questions from Julia who was married for 12 years and has been divorced for 2 years. She asks why non-monogamous relationships disturb her so much and wants to know if she should be more open to them?

Julia was monogamous in her marriage, but now has questions about open relationships as a single person. Sometimes she thinks she should try it because she gets so obsessed in her romantic relationships, but the thought disturbs her to the core.

The Council suggests Julia find the love for herself she’s looking for in relationships and asks why she wants to experience something she knows will be unpleasant in order to fit in. They also suggest Julia listen to herself and ask why make herself uncomfortable.

The Council advises more self-love, more doing for herself, and being gentle with herself to draw in the right people.

In one lifetime she was one of many wives and wasn’t made to feel special. She was lonely, didn’t receive enough attention, and that began her uncomfortable feeling she carries into this lifetime. Perhaps knowing where this feeling of uncomfortableness with open relationships comes from will make it possible to release this and work on loving herself more.

The Council says it’s fine to be in monogamous or non-monogamous relationships, but encourages Julia to choose what’s comfortable for her and ask why she’d put herself in a relationship where there’s no comfort. Choosing a monogamous relationship with someone who has similar beliefs would be easier for her.

Listen to the entire 9-minute conversation with The Council to hear all of what they had to say.

A Question from Sky

This post is a response to Sky’s question for The Council about how to find “the highest and most loving way to create harmony and balance in my new relationship.” Sky’s full question can be found here.

After reading Sky’s question to The Council, they expressed a desire to address it sentence by sentence to make sure they address each issue.

You Have Access to Higher Wisdom

The Council enjoyed Sky’s reference to them as “Beloved Council.” And they love that Sky is thankful for their higher wisdom, but they remind Sky and the rest of us that humans are spirit in a physical body and we have the potential to access the same wisdom, but we tend to forget we’re spiritual beings with this ability. The Council says it’s their desire to remind us of the wisdom we have within us, and they do this by “knocking us on the head a little bit, and opening the door of our heart a little bit” to help us access this wisdom within ourselves.

A Milestone Post

This post is a milestone for us. It’s our first post to include recorded audio content of one of our sessions with The Council, a group of non-physical spirit guides Cynthia is able to communicate with and channel (the process of letting The Council speak using her voice). For our first audio post we picked one of our favorite sessions with The Council, and we decided to include the complete session so you can get a feel for what these sessions are like.

A Question from Chris

This post is a response to a question from Chris, who asks The Council, “How do you really know when messages from meditation are really what to follow?” Chris explains she often gets excited by ideas to go in a certain direction with her life, but when she considers these inspirations in the light of her day-to-day experience, they don’t seem so inspirational any more. Chris gives the following two examples: ideas about new people coming into her life that never seem to come, and ideas about a direction she should take for work that maybe don’t turn out the way she hoped.

Chris’s questions seem relevant for many readers, even if you’re not a meditator. If you ever felt good about an inspiration to take your life in a particular direction, only to end up feeling confused when the inspiration ends up feeling like an impractical and unattainable desire, you may find The Council’s guidance helpful.

Welcome

Bob & Cynthia

Welcome to Ask The Council, a blog where you can ask a group of loving and wise spirit guides a question and get an answer, for free. You can contact us for a paid private session with The Council, and you can read the questions other readers have asked and the answers they’ve received. Other posts contain quotations from The Council that we hope you find inspiring, uplifting, and educational.

Ask The Council a Question

If there’s a question you’ve been thinking about and you’re curious how The Council might answer it, we encourage you to either use the blog’s Comments feature to ask your question, or contact us for a private session. You can click here to go to the ‘Let us know what you think about this post, or ask The Council a question’ section of this Welcome post and type your question there or you can type your question in the same section at the bottom of any post that inspires you to ask a question or leave a comment.

Since the blog is currently a project we do in our spare time it can take a while for us to do a session with The Council on a question and then publish a post on the session. Depending on the question and the session it can sometimes take weeks after a question is asked to publish a post with The Council’s answer. Please be patient.

The Council

Cynthia is able to communicate with a group of five non-physical spirit guides in a manner similar to the way Esther Hicks communicates with and speaks for the spirit guides, Abraham, and Jane Roberts communicated and spoke for the spirit guide, Seth. I (Bob) basically interview The Council as they speak through Cynthia during what we refer to as a session. Sessions generally last 5-15 minutes and are usually audio recorded. During the session Cynthia is aware of what The Council is saying and she also receives visual impressions and other types of telepathic communication from them.

The Council’s Basic Guidance

Since we began these sessions with The Council around 2009 they consistently emphasize a few basic ideas that we attempt to summarize here:

1) You are an eternal spiritual being in a physical body.

You are the energy and vibration of continuously expanding love, intelligence, and joy.

Your physical experience in your physical body and your psychological experience of your personality is a small part of the totality of who you truly are.

Let yourself imagine from time to time what it might feel like to experience more of the wondrous totality of who you really are, and don’t be surprised if you are able to experience this more often.

2) You are the creator of all that you experience.

As you open to the possibility your true nature is greater than you ordinarily perceive, it becomes easier to consider the possibility that this expanded you is truly the creator of everything that you experience.

You chose, as a spiritual being, to come into this physical reality to experience the joy of expanding the love you are as a spiritual being, into this physical reality. This is your purpose for being here.

Finding Your Way Around the Blog

Home Page

The left-hand column on the Home page contain a long chronological series of posts with the most recent on top. Each post begins with a title. Clicking on a post title will take you to a blog page dedicated to that particular post. Following each post is a Like button where you can indicate to us and other readers if you like the post.

The footer section of each post identifies the date the post was published, the Categories the post has been assigned to, the keyword/keyphrase Tags assigned to the post, and a Comment link. If readers comments on a post, the Comments link will indicate the number of comments. If a post has no comments yet, the Comment link text appears as “Leave a Comment”.

Clicking on the Comments link takes you to a Comment text box on a post page dedicated to that post. Here you can type a comment in the text box and click the Post Comment button to have your comment displayed just below the text box. If you are replying to someone else’s comment, your comment will appear indented underneath the comment you are replying to.

At the bottom of the left column on the Home page is a ‘Previous Entries’ link that will take you to a page with a list of earlier posts.

Blog Features

The right-hand column of most blog pages contains this Welcome message. Below the Welcome message in the right-hand column are some useful features:

Email Subscription: Use this to subscribe to blog posts. You will receive an email notification with a link back to the blog each time a new post is published.

Search: Type a keyword or phrase and click the Search button to get a list of posts in the left column that contain the keyword or phrase.

Archives: The Archives list indicates the number of posts for each month listed. Clicking on the link for a month will display in the left column of the page a list of the posts published that month.

Categories: This is a list of keywords used to categorize posts. Posts can be included in more than one category, if applicable. Clicking on a category link will display in the left column a list of posts assigned to the category you selected.

Navigation Bar

The Navigation Bar at the top of each page contains a link to the blog Home page and links to the following additional pages:

Welcome: A link that displays this Welcome message in the left column (and the right column). At the bottom of the Welcome message is a Comment box where you can post a general comment about the blog or ask The Council a question.

Questions & Answers: Use this link to display a list of introductions to our longer posts, most of which are responses to reader questions. This is an easy way to check out these more in-depth posts. They are listed in chronological order with the most recent post on top. Clicking on the post title will take you to the page where you can read the complete post.

Contact Us: The Contact Us page contains a contact form similar to the Comment form mentioned above. The difference between the Contact Us form and the Comment forms is that the Contact Us form is a private message to us (Cynthia and Bob). It is not posted on the blog. Comments appear on the post page where the comment is posted. The Contact Us form can be used for communicating with us about private sessions or other private matters you think aren’t appropriate for posting in a public Comment.

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